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Performance Analysis of MPPT Techniques for Dynamic Irradiation Condition of Solar PV

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Solar Photovoltaic (PV) systems are playing a major role in the present electrical energy systems. The solar PV gives nonlinear I–V and P–V characteristics. As a result, it is difficult to extract the maximum power of the solar PV. Under Partial Shading Conditions (PSCs), the solar PV characteristics consist of multiple local Maximum Power Points (MPPs) and one global MPP. The classical Maximum Power Point Tracking (MPPT) techniques cannot track the global MPP under PSCs. Accordingly, this work aims to study the performance of five soft computing MPPT techniques. The studied five soft computing MPPT techniques are Modified Variable Step Size-Radial Basis Functional Network (MVSS-RBFN), Modified Hill-Climb with Fuzzy Logic Controller (MHC-FLC), Artificial Neuro-Fuzzy Inference System (ANFIS), Perturb and Observe with Practical Swarm Optimization (P&O-PSO), and Adaptive Cuckoo Search (ACS). The comparative performance analysis of five soft computing techniques has been carried out against the Variable Step Size-Incremental Resistance (VSS-INR), and Variable Step Size-Feedback Controller (VSS-FC)-based MPPT techniques. The performance analysis of seven MPPT techniques has been done by considering the parameters are steady-state settling time, MPP tracking speed, algorithm complexity, PV array dependency, handling of partial shading, and efficiency.

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Abbreviations

P MPP :

Maximum Peak Power of solar PV, 249.3 W

V MPP :

A peak-Peak voltage of PV, 30 V

I MPP :

Peak-Peak current of PV, 8.31 A

N pp :

Strings connected in parallel, 1

N ss :

Each string series-connected modules, 3

N s :

Each module cells, 60

r s :

Series resistance of PV cell, 0.2914 Ω

r p :

Parallel resistance, 314.76 Ω

V oc :

Open-circuit voltage of PV, 36.8 V

I sc -n :

Short-circuit current of PV, 8.83 A

I 0 - n :

Saturation current of the diode, 1.013*exp10−10A

T n :

Standard temperature, 25 °C

G n :

Nominal irradiation, 1000 W/m2

Kv :

Temperature coefficient of voltage, − 0.33%/°C

K i :

Temperature coefficient of current, 0.063%/°C

a1, a2 :

Diode ideality factors, 0.984, 1

T :

Operating Temperature of PV module, 45 °C

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Hussaian Basha, C.H., Rani, C. Performance Analysis of MPPT Techniques for Dynamic Irradiation Condition of Solar PV. Int. J. Fuzzy Syst. 22, 2577–2598 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40815-020-00974-y

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